ואין אנשי עיר קטנה מהלכין את כל עיר גדולה
but the people of the small town may not walk through the whole of a large town.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As if it were no bigger than four cubits. They may walk so far only as the termination of their Sabbath limit in whatever part of the town that may happen to be, in agreement with the first ruling of R. Joshua b. Levi.');"><sup>1</sup></span> Now what is the reason?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the difference between the rights of the inhabitants of the large and those of the smaller town respectively.');"><sup>2</sup></span> Obviously<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'not?'');"><sup>3</sup></span> because the measure of the latter terminated in the middle of the former town,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In agreement with the rulings of R. Joshua b. Levi (cf. supra nn. 10f) .');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Eruvin
Is a city counted in the measure of 2’000? Rebbi Ḥizqiah said, Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: A city is not counted in the measure of 2’000. Rebbi Eleazar said, a city is counted in the measure of 2’000. In earlier times the people of Tiberias were walking through all its hot springs but the people of its hot springs came only to the cupola. But today for the people of Tiberias and the people of its hot springs it is one city. Rebbi Jeremiah said, “it happened that an old shepherd came and said before Rebbi, I remember the people of Magdala walking up to its hot springs, walking through its hot springs and coming up to the outer courtyard close to the bridge; and Rebbi permitted that the people of Magdala walk up to its hot springs, walking through its hot springs and come up to the outer courtyard up to the bridge. In addition, Rebbi permitted that the people of Gadara descend to their hot springs and return to Gadara but the people of the hot springs may not ascend to Gadara.” Rebbi Mana said, because of the authorities. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said, it is not because of this but because we have stated “the people of a large town walk through all of a small town, the people of a small town do not walk through all of a large town.”
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